Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.
Tadashi Yanai
Related I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Fr... DANA CARVEY I think this is following in a long line of great San Francisco nuttiness. JAMES ARMSTRONG I try to get anybody coming to San Francisco to come to the Mission. Not to misuse the word 'authent... DAVE EGGERS I lived in San Francisco from '84 to '88. MARIO BATALI San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I'm both of those, which is why I... MICHAEL FRANTI This other time, Attikol had the streets of San Francisco rearranged just so this lady's favorite sh... ROB REGER You see 6,000 times more tech companies in San Francisco than you see in Seattle. All the money is i... ROBERT SCOBLE As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful... GAVIN NEWSOM The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. MARK TWAIN The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco MARK TWAIN I told the (team) I'm going to come back. I like everyone here. I like everything about San Francisc... RAY DURHAM I remember when San Francisco was truly a dynamic city, but it has been reduced to a joke ... . JIM DONOVAN I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, ther... BRIAN ENO San Francisco Bay has been hit hard by organisms hitchhiking from across the Pacific, ... They're ta... LINDA FARMER I grew up in the Mission District in San Francisco, which was largely Hispanic at the time. I was ra... KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE I told them I want to come back. I like the guys here. I like the organization and I like everything... RAY DURHAM I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and liv... WENDELL PIERCE I like the city of San Francisco. It's very cosmopolitan. COLIN MONTGOMERIE Initially when this all came about, I was very negative about it. I said you do more good for them b... JUDY BARR I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years... RAYMOND BURR No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an expe... WILLIAM SAROYAN I've got more chins than a San Francisco phonebook. BRUCE VILANCH When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I join... PETER COYOTE We are very excited to be entering into partnership with the San Francisco Film Society, whose San F... BRIAN CLARK The music I was really listening to in 1968 was James Brown, the great guitar player Jimi Hendrix, a... MILES DAVIS For 100 years they claimed that 478 people died [in the 1906 earthquake] in San Francisco. JAMES DALESSANDRO When I was 13, I began relaxing my hair, and that meant when I turned 18 it began to crack and fall ... SOLEDAD O'BRIEN [San Francisco] . . . the city that never was a town. WILL ROGERS I worked for 'The Chronicle' in San Francisco, and immigration is a big issue in that region... JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the p... DOUGLASS NORTH If you're alive, you can't be bored in San Francisco. If you're not alive, San Francisco will bring ... WILLIAM SAROYAN San Francisco Bay Blues. KATHY ROBINSON I think that's 2.5 times as much insurance as at any event before in San Francisco. BLACK ROB I'm a huge fan of the Bay Area so I always love coming to San Francisco. EZRA KOENIG I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Franc... AMY IRVING In San Francisco, Haloween is redundant. WILL DURST Most people don't realize the magnitude of what happened here in 1906 in San Francisco, JAMES DALESSANDRO the real-life tale of a serial killer known as the Zodiac Killer, who terrorized San Francisco for 2... THE BROTHERS GRIMM world is a drama, we are the actors with our play role MICHALE CALLAHAN What about San Francisco?" "What about it?" "Did you like it?" She shrugged. "It was ... ARMISTEAD MAUPIN It's weird, when I go back to San Francisco, the few times that I've done shows there since ... KASKADE I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even ... I. M. PEI I've gotten calls from people from as far as San Francisco wanting to come and see this lighthouse. DON GEORGE [The Dolphins, who spent last week at the San Francisco Hilton after playing the previous Sunday in ... PATRICK SURTAIN When I sold my first book, 'A Conspiracy of Tall Men,' it was part of a two-book deal. It wa... NOAH HAWLEY I came into reality television with MTV's show 'The Real World,' specifically the 1994 s... MOLLY O'KEEFE San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are... RUDYARD KIPLING So you see, San Francisco is a bit slow. CECILIE KLAUMANN San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are... RUDYARD KIPLING It's 1966, Easy has to come to San Francisco, WALTER MOSLEY It's difficult to argue, or suggest, we should cut someone's budget, ... when you're dealing with th... GAVIN NEWSOM When you get tired of walking around San Francisco, you can always lean against it PETER SHAFFER I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted th... LARRY KRAMER After the Second World War, San Francisco was the main point of re-entry for sailors returning from ... JEFFREY EUGENIDES What makes San Francisco work is that high-value people like to live there and cluster. JAMES COULTER Maximum Rocknroll didn't have a map section. How was I supposed to know that B... BUCKY SINISTER After Sept. 11, they got bruised here in San Francisco. They had all their eggs in this basket. THOMAS CALLAHAN When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a frie... LARRY HARVEY I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Fr... TRACY K. SMITH They'll even find it in San Francisco. CECILIE KLAUMANN The San Francisco Bay Area [is] the playpen of countercultures. R. Z. SHEPPARD Boulder was not the small town I had expected. It is a vivacious community of sophisticated people, ... KIMBAL MUSK Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think... GORDON SINCLAIR I went to college at San Francisco State and supported myself working the graveyard shift at a brewe... DAVID CARRADINE There's a waiting list to get musical productions onstage in New York. But I basically rolled the di... GREGG MADAY We didn't know it before that, but once he was delivered the doctors had suspicion. When he was six ... KATHY RANTZ I run in London, in San Francisco - any city that's got a waterfront or park. DANNY MEYER San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories. JACK LONDON This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco. GARY HART Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angles to San Francisco live there? HERB CAEN Look at us -- we're a San Francisco wedding cake. ROBIN WILLIAMS Sir, I view the proposal to hold an international exhibition at San Francisco with an equanimity bor... WILLIAM S. GILBERT San Francisco Unified School District is to be commended for the progress it has made in improving s... ELI BROAD We know that the people of San Francisco don't have an appetite for taxpayer-backed debt. LISA LANG Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Franc... ERIC ALLIN CORNELL We were raised together in Seattle and San Francisco until Dickie was 12, CAROL CHANNING I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil... ROSIE O'DONNELL If you've got $2,300 from FEMA and you're in San Francisco, you're in trouble. BRIAN SULLIVAN San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities. CECIL BEATON San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities CECIL BEATON I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San F... GARY COLE San Francisco is coming back. Corporations are once again locating in The City and a rebound in Sili... TAPAN MUNROE There may not be a Heaven, but there is a San Francisco ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it ... PHILIP K. DICK The only way we know summer is coming is by the more chilling winds, the increased dust, the tawny c... CAROLINE C. LEIGHTON This is about bringing the heart and soul of San Francisco back to the forefront, GAVIN NEWSOM He had a good game against San Francisco, and he had a really good game Sunday ... I'm really happy ... DAMIONE LEWIS Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco. SUSANNA KAYSEN In 2004, results from a study that I worked on with colleagues at the University of California, San ... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires DENNIS SMITH This incident is in no way related to what happened in San Francisco. BRIAN SWANSON It's tough for guys like George, Horner and me to do anything because everybody watches us. But I to... LEVI LEIPHEIMER One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.' HERB CAEN San Francisco. The one team that everyone in LA hates. JEREMY SUMPTER We thought we were the highest rollers in San Francisco. BART LALLY One thing about that it is that (San Francisco) struggled in their league last year. I think Tanya w... PAM TANNER What we have over San Francisco is the market. We just have to push to get our facilities in place. MICHAEL DIGIROLAMO I never, ever considered an evacuation strategy in San Francisco that would require the entire city ... GAVIN NEWSOM If you have to be a one-hit wonder, then 'San Francisco' is the one to have. SCOTT MCKENZIE Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present f... BOBBY MCFERRIN
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